The Swiss Softball National Team will travel to the Dutch city of Almere, where they will play a preparation tournament regarding this year’s European Championship. Switzerland will face Almere ’90 and the Laufer Wölfe from Germany on Sunday, May 31. The Challengers players Simona Cellar, Leandra Simitovic, Flavia von Meiss, Ziegylou Wehrli, Simone Zurschmitten will play for the Swiss team.
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The Softball-Team is off to the worst start in the team’s six-year history, as the Challengers lost twice to the Bern Cardinals on Saturday, May 23 at the Klopstockwiese. The C’s are now in fifth place with a 2-4 record. Although the Challengers outhit the Cardinals 9-6 in Game 1, they lost 9-16, as their pitchers allowed too many walks. Starter Andrea Wirth ended up with the loss allowing nine runs – two of them unearned – and one hit with one strikeout in 3-plus innings and Corinne Wengi gave up another five runs in the fourth. Leandra Simitovic collected three hits including a double, while Celine Welti drove in two runs with her first career hit in the second inning. Game 2 was all Cardinals. Amanda Bell tossed a two-hitter with six strikeouts and Sibylle Zürcher hit a 3-run homerun, a double and drove in five runs in the Cards 12-0 victory over the C’s. The C’s lost due to poor batting and committed six costly errors, that led to nine unearned runs. Leandra Simitovic allowed 12 runs – three earned – and nine hits with five walks and three strikeouts, while Alexia Zingg and Katrin Dresbach were the only Challengers with a hit. The Challengers will face next the Wil Devils on Sunday, June 14 at Wil.